Toboggan-slide



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TOBOGGAN-SLIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,232, dated July l2I1887.

Serial No. 231.572. (No model.)

ment in toboggan-slides adapted for use in summer as well as in winter,not depending upon the state of the weather or thc presence of snow orice to adapt it for use; and it consists in a certain novel constructionhereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings hereto annexed I illustrate a slide constructedaccording to my'improved plan, in which- Fignre l is a perspective viewthereof, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the saine with a portion .of theside rails broken away to show the construction thereof and the mannerof journaling the rollers.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar letters denote"correspondingparts in all the figures, A designates the frame of the slide, havingthe side rails or bars, B, usually of considerable thickness, as shown,and extending the entire length of the slide.

C O represent the rollers, having pins or trunnions c c in the oppositeends to operate in bearings in the said side rails or bars, B. Therollers are set a short distance apart, as shown, and when the journalsare properly lubricated the resistance offered to the descent of thetoboggan will be found very slight.

The advantage possessed by this mode of constructing the slide will bereadily appreciated, as it is not necessary to wait for snow or ice touse the same, it being at all times in readiness theret'or; also, theslide as described possesses an advantage, in that'it may be covered byan awning or roof and usedl during inclement weather, while the saidordinary slide must necessarily be exposed to theweather in order tobecome covered with snow or ice to make it possible to use the same. Bythe construction shown the rollers are protected and sustained from allside strain, and thus they will be always in position to allow freesliding of the toboggan.

Having now described my invention, I claim` 1 The improvedtoboggan-slide herein described and shown, comprising thesupportingframe A, the inclinedside rails, B, and the rollers C,journaled in and between the side rails immediately adjacent to, but outof contact with, each other, substantially as speciiied.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

. JAMES MGCULLOIUGH.

lVitnesses ED. GALE QUINA, I). R. Pr'rr.

